Wen’s healthy ini­tia­tive

Dr. Leana Wen is to be com­mended for putting for­ward the com­pre­hen­sive pub­lic health plan known as Healthy Bal­ti­more 2020 (“Redefin­ing pub­lic health,” Sept. 2). Spe­cific tac­tics to ac­com­plish such an out­come would ben­e­fit from con­sid­er­a­tion of Dr. An­thony Biglan’s work on how the science of hu­man be­hav­ior can be ap­plied to im­prove our lives and our world.

If it takes a lady from Shang­hai to put things right in Bal­ti­more, so be it.